Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Covid-19 Tests

Peadar Tóibín

786. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons residing in direct provision centres who have tested positive for Covid-19 in 2020. [44773/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

787. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 outbreaks experienced in direct provision centres to date. [44774/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

788. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of direct provision centres currently experiencing outbreaks of Covid-19. [44775/20]

Pet Farms

Peadar Tóibín

1195. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of puppy farms registered in each of the past five years; the number of dog wardens employed by each local authority; the amount spent by her Department in increasing the level of public knowledge on individual's responsibilities in relation to puppy farm regulations; the number of persons fined who are breeding and selling puppies who have not adhered to the regulations to date; the actions her Department is taking to ensure that the proportion of dog licences in the State is lifted from 20% to 100%; and if her Department has worked on the centralisation of microchip databases. [45130/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Peadar Tóibín

57. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the €45 million Covid-19 stability fund for community and voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises that has been paid out to date. [43933/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Peadar Tóibín

124. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has offered or been offered additional funding to assist the owners of wet pubs this Christmas. [43951/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Peadar Tóibín

175. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide extra supports to SMEs for whom Christmas normally represents their peak trade time. [43952/20]

Planning Issues

Peadar Tóibín

124. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if minutes should be kept at preplanning meetings in local authorities. [43645/20]

Cancer Services

Peadar Tóibín

275. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to an exchange with this Deputy during Leaders' Questions on 8 December 2020, if he has sought clarity on the situation whereby the HSE CervicalCheck programme maintains that the women affected by the CervicalCheck scandal have not been wronged and are merely unfortunate, while the Government is apologising to these women for wrongdoing and the courts are ruling that they have been wronged. [43635/20]

Cancer Services

Peadar Tóibín

276. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to an exchange with this Deputy during Leaders' Questions on 8 December 2020, if he agrees with the clinical director of CervicalCheck in her contention that the courts are wrong in their rulings that smear tests were read in a manner which was neglectful in respect of the CervicalCheck scandal. [43636/20]

Cancer Services

Peadar Tóibín

283. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health his views on the contention of the clinical director of CervicalCheck that the courts are wrong in their rulings that smear tests were read in a manner which was neglectful in respect of the CervicalCheck scandal. [43632/20]

Cancer Services

Peadar Tóibín

284. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation whereby the CervicalCheck programme maintains that the women affected by the CervicalCheck scandal have not been wronged and are merely unfortunate, while the Government is apologising to these women for wrongdoing and the courts are ruling that they have been wronged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43633/20]

Student Universal Support Ireland

Peadar Tóibín

74. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students who were initially awarded SUSI grants that have since had the grants withdrawn from them by SUSI. [43307/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

76. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when universities and colleges will be permitted to reopen. [43308/20]

IDA Ireland

Peadar Tóibín

126. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status of a skills audit by the IDA for County Laois; the results of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42948/20]

IDA Ireland

Peadar Tóibín

127. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits the IDA has carried out in each county in each of the past five years in counties Laois, Offaly and Westmeath in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42949/20]

IDA Ireland

Peadar Tóibín

128. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs sponsored by the IDA in each county in each of the past five years in counties Laois, Offaly and Westmeath in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42950/20]

IDA Ireland

Peadar Tóibín

129. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount the IDA has invested in job creation in each county in each of the past five years in counties Laois, Offaly and Westmeath in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42951/20]

IDA Ireland

Peadar Tóibín

130. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of meetings the IDA has held with elected members of Dáil Éireann in each county in each of the past five years from counties Laois, Offaly and Westmeath in tabular form. [42952/20]

Special Educational Needs

Peadar Tóibín

319. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education when approved funding for assistive technology for a student (details supplied) will be made available. [42862/20]

Dental Services

Peadar Tóibín

507. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the current waiting time for appointments, and the number waiting for appointments, for HSE child dental services in County Laois; and the action he is taking to address the backlog due to Covid-19. [42955/20]

Dental Services

Peadar Tóibín

508. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the current waiting time for appointments and the numbers waiting for appointments for HSE child dental services in County Meath; and the action he is taking to address the backlog due to Covid-19. [42956/20]

Mental Health Services

Peadar Tóibín

558. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when a full-time child psychiatrist will be assigned to Limerick in addition to the one who travels from Dublin a couple of times a month. [43249/20]

Judicial Appointments

Peadar Tóibín

46. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the reason the second vacancy for the Supreme Court has been left unfilled; and her plans to fill this position before the end of her term as Minister. [40269/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

90. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the nature of the correspondence his Department has received from organisations, charities, volunteer groups and NGOs which warn of an increase in mental health issues and suicide rates since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. [42445/20]

Health Services Staff

Peadar Tóibín

135. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of additional nurses, midwives and medical practitioners that have been employed by the HSE in 2020 through the use of recruitment agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42444/20]

Special Educational Needs

Peadar Tóibín

295. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education if she will take steps to resolve the dispute that has arisen in schools in relation to SNAs being asked to use a catheter with certain students that need help with toileting; and when staff with nursing experience will be employed in schools to help certain students' needs as promised. [42561/20]

Protected Disclosures

Peadar Tóibín

376. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to recent reports in the media that a protected disclosure was made to his Department concerning warnings of issues pertaining to foetal diagnostic testing in 2018, some months before a perfectly healthy unborn baby was misdiagnosed and subsequently aborted in the National Maternity Hospital in 2019. [40270/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

377. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the rationale behind the current guidance in relation to attendance at funerals and weddings. [42095/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Peadar Tóibín

149. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) aged over 66 who has had their employment impacted by Covid-19, had been making PRSI contributions while in employment and was also in receipt of a contributory widow’s pension is excluded from being eligible to apply for the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42319/20]

Tax Data

Peadar Tóibín

186. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by taxes on advertisements on social media platforms (details supplied). [41494/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

232. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will engage with organisations (details supplied) to allow them to operate under levels 3 and 4 Covid-19 restrictions provided they follow all the relevant HSE guidelines, practise social distancing in classes and employ a pod system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41257/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

408. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if persons with Down's syndrome are eligible to use the EmployAbility service. [41877/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

409. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if audits are conducted annually for each EmployAbility service; if an audit has been conducted for each service annually for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41878/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

410. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost per placement for each jobseeker successfully placed in employment by the EmployAbility service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41879/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

411. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the breakdown of funding for each EmployAbility service; and the funding of the programme nationally. [41880/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

412. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number jobseekers registered with the EmployAbility programme in each of the past five years. [41881/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

413. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseekers who exited the EmployAbility programme without having secured employment in each of the past five years. [41882/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

414. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseekers who exited the EmployAbility programme after 18 months or more without having secured employment in each of the past five years. [41883/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

415. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of the total jobseekers with EmployAbility currently in employment having secured employment through the programme under the wage subsidy scheme. [41884/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

416. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of jobseekers registered with EmployAbility who secured employment of less than ten hours per week and between ten and 20 hours per week, respectively, through the programme in each of the past five years. [41885/20]

Employment Support Services

Peadar Tóibín

417. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has conducted research to determine the percentage of jobseekers who had gained employment through EmployAbility that were still in employment six months or more after exiting the programme. [41886/20]

Direct Provision System

Peadar Tóibín

454. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the procurement process for accommodation for asylum seekers, that is, direct provision centres. [41498/20]

Direct Provision System

Peadar Tóibín

455. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the companies currently providing accommodation to the State for use as direct provision centres; and the sums paid to each of these companies in each of the past five years. [41499/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

456. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 11 November 2020, if he will provide copies of the correspondence referenced in his reply. [41507/20]

Departmental Expenditure

Peadar Tóibín

471. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount his Department has spent to date on student supports and grants. [41450/20]

Departmental Expenditure

Peadar Tóibín

472. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount his Department has spent since it was established; and the breakdown on the spending. [41451/20]

Anti-Terrorism Measures

Peadar Tóibín

497. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if MI5 or any other British military intelligence organisations are or have been working in Ireland over the past five years; if so, if they are operating with the licence of the policing and Army authorities of the State; and if her attention has been drawn to MI5 or any other British military intelligence organisations operating at any level here without permission of An Garda Síochána, the Army or Government. [41228/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

617. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if his Department indemnified any private companies in respect of the proposed roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine; if so, the name of each company any level of indemnity has been provided to; the type of indemnity provided in each case in terms of side effects, illness, potential death, lack of immunity provided, ineffective vaccine, damage to unborn children and so on; if any of the supply, delivery or administering the vaccine elements has been indemnified; if so, the value for each company; and the lowest and highest estimated potential cost to the State if the indemnification is called upon due to legal action in respect of the vaccine. [41365/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Peadar Tóibín

633. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the studies or research conducted by his Department into the impacts of the lockdown, pandemic and restrictions on the mental health of persons, specifically persons who are homeless, older persons, persons in nursing homes, those residing in direct provision, members of the Travelling community and young persons, students; and if he will address the findings of any such research. [41445/20]